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The view is amazing. Depending on which apartment you get, you might have enough balconies to see most of tempe for miles and miles. Best view I've seen except for maybe the view of Taipei 101 from 象山.

One of my favorite games is final fantasy 3 for the Nintendo DS. I really liked the job system in this game, especially since I named the main character after myself so I related to him and felt like I was all the different jobs. The characters were largely one dimensional but this was good, they were small parts in YOUR adventure. My God, what a perfect game.

I used to be a hardcore atheist, as in, I hated believers in God and I felt absolutely confident there was no God. Eventually, I read about a near death experience someone had where they remembered their surgery even though they were technically dead and they described (and drew a picture of) the medical tool used on her even though her head was covered and the tool was not initially in the room. She also said she saw dead relatives. I tried for a year and a half after this to debunk every supernatural thing I came across. Aliens, UFO's, ghosts, psychics, everything. I wanted there to be absolutely no proof of the supernatural so that there would be no room for the possibility of God existing. Eventually I read the story of a man who would very descriptively talk about dreams he had that would later pan out to be true. He had quite a few stories about this and they were so in depth and detailed. I figured that there couldn't be this many people making stuff on the internet, didn't these people have better things to do? So I asked my skeptical friend who would help me debunk every other thing I came across and he told me that he gets dreams of the future too. I was pretty broken at this point since he was supposed to console me but he described his experiences too. So I went back to the near death experience stuff and started to heavily read the testimonies that people had. Turns out some said all paths lead to heaven and that no matter what you just went to heaven. When I thought about that, I realized that there was no need to be afraid of God, since He would just send everyone to heaven. However, the problem was I went to look at porn after reading some of these stories and afterwards I felt incredibly guilty. Then I got paranoid thoughts about discrepencies in the near death experience testimonies. Some said they saw satan, others said God told them satan did not exist. Apparently Christians believed that these near death experiences were from satan himself because people who experienced this things described seeing a being of light that said it was God, and interestingly, in the bible it says that satan masquerades as an angel of light. When I learned about this I got very paranoid, and thought "what if all this experiences are from satan and in fact God is satan and is tricking everyone into thinking they will go to heaven when everyone is just going to hell after they die, not heaven." I learned that in philosophy this is called the "trickster hypothesis." Anyway, I was torn between two possibilities, God sending everyone to heaven or God sending everyone to hell. I also came across accounts of people who said they had been cursed, and people who described demonic possession and exorcisms. This troubled me even more, because if satan was not real, why was there all this evil in the world? Eventually I became super paranoid that aliens were among us and that they were pretending to be humans (there are actually quite a few people who believe this). Eventually I was so anxious and troubled that one day I accused Jesus and asked him "If you are real as all these christians say you are, why am I so troubled and paranoid? Come save me!" Anyway, a few days later I read a woman's testimony about going to hell for 30 days and heaven 10 days. I read her whole testimony. It perplexed me because she said she did not have a near death experience but rather Jesus visited her and took her there. The fact that she said it was repeated was also very different from other testimonies. Eventually I watched a video of her to see if she was just making it up but her description of it convinced me. She also claimed that Jesus was the only way to heaven and otherwise you went to hell. I decided to research Jesus by going on Wikipedia of all places and I read the info about the miracles he did and I knew I had to believe this. I decided a few days later while in physics class that I would rather not burn in hell forever so I decided I would obey Jesus. I was still incredibly anxious because I was now afraid of hell and also I now had to consider the possibility of sin being real. I decided to research more about this because I was struggling with the fact that I wanted to believe all paths go to heaven and not just one. I google stuff like "hearing God" and I found that mostly christians claimed to be able to do this. I also researched miracles but I found that Christians also had what seemed to be a monopoly on such experiences. My thought process was this: "if miracles are made up, then every religious community should have its share of miracle accounts" but this was not the case. Miracles in other faiths were few and far between.

I have thought a lot about this. I used to be atheist until I read about how some people see things when they have a near death experience. I tried to debunk it but eventually I gave in to believing their stories. The thing was, their stories had many similarities that did not make sense, like Americans talking about reincarnation, something uncommon in the culture or a temple of knowledge being a common theme. However they were also contradictory, and did not always go well together. I was extremely confused by this. Eventually I came across a book by a woman who said that Jesus took her to hell 30 days and that it wasn't a near death experience. It was fascinating and I realized it tied everything together. The bible says that satan (idk if you believe in him) manifests as a being of light and that is exactly how many people describe God in their near death experiences, as a being of light. I figured that satan gave people these visions to confuse them about what happens when you die. Christianity seemed to have the only explanation for why people had these unnaturally similar experiences and why they also happened to contradict each other.

Evidence for King David was found recently, as was evidence for the city of Sodom ALONG with evidence for its sudden destruction. Honestly a lot of the stuff in the bible does not have historical support because we are talking about stuff that happened 3000 years ago, yet slowly as archaeology progresses, it seems we are finding more and more that does. Also I heard somewhere that the flood is starting to be considered an actual historical event, but I can't remember where I read that or if that was true.

Hi. I used to be very much against anti-vaccination theories until I actually did some research. My apologies to you for having to deal with all this. It's very hard for many redditors to believe otherwise because of all the instances where autism by vaccination has been proven false, but medical science can be pretty stubborn.

No no no, God does love all those people. I just don't like how people keep saying "go on keep doing what you're doing" like it doesn't matter. God is love but he's also just, and He doesn't want us in sin which he hates. Gay people want and need love, but they're looking for it in the wrong place. Think of it like being a drug addict, alcoholic, etc. These people are looking for love and they are finding it in the wrong place. Sure they think it makes them happy but it doesn't. That's what I'm saying. Homosexuality is a trap and these people can be restored through Christ. Now I agree that lots of problems have been caused by Christians flat out hating homosexuals. But I don't agree that we should support homosexuality.

Dude, original sin. We're all born sinners, and no God didn't intend for us to be that way. What about psychopaths? Did God lovingly create people to naturally be killers? Or was it this evil world that made them that way? What about pedophilia? Or those that love animals and want to have sex with them? Or all the weird fetishes that exist? Did God create those? Was God there too? Look, I understand where you're coming from. It probably doesn't make sense that God would prevent two people from loving each other, but if you believe that the enemy is behind it, then it starts to make sense.

You have wearied the Lord with your words.
“How have we wearied him?” you ask.
By saying, “All who do evil are good in the eyes of the Lord, and he is pleased with them” or “Where is the God of justice?”